Using BMesh operators through the edit-mesh API created a full copy
of the mesh so it was possible to restore the mesh in case
one of the operators raised an error.
Remove support for automatic backup/restore from the EDBM_op_* API's
as it adds significant overhead and was rarely used.
Operators that need this can use the BMBackup API to backup & restore
the mesh in case of failure.
Add warning levels to BMO_error_raise so operators can report problems
without it being interpreted as a request to cancel the operation.
For high-poly meshes creating and freeing a full copy is an expensive
operation, removing this gives a speedup of ~1.77x for most operators
except for "connect_verts" / "connect_vert_pair"
which still uses this functionality.
Avoid computationally expensive copying operations
when only some settings have been modified.
This is done by adding support for updating parameters
without tagging for copy-on-write.
Currently only mesh data blocks are supported,
other data-blocks can be added individually.
This prepares for changing values such as edit-mesh auto-smooth angle
in edit-mode without duplicating all mesh-data.
The benefit will only be seen when the user interface no longer tags
all ID's for copy on write updates.
ID_RECALC_GEOMETRY_ALL_MODES has been added to support situations
where non edit-mode geometry is modified in edit-mode.
While this isn't something user are likely to do,
Python scripts may change the underlying mesh.
Reviewed By: sergey
Ref D11377
This patch fixes many minor spelling mistakes, all in comments or
console output. Mostly contractions like can't, won't, don't, its/it's,
etc.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11663
Reviewed by Harley Acheson
Rename function EDBM_update_generic to EDBM_update, use a parameters
argument for better readability.
Also add calc_normals argument, which will have benefits when
calculating normals and tessellation together is optimized.
Warnings in tooltips were using inconsistent formatting, some in
parantheses, some not, some in caps, others not, some on new lines,
some not, etc.
This patch uses a consistent new line and no capitals for these cases.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9904
This adds the LineArt grease pencil modifier.
It takes objects or collections as input and generates various grease
pencil lines from these objects with the help of the active scene
camera. For example it can generate contour lines, intersection lines
and crease lines to name a few.
This is really useful as artists can then use 3D meshes to automatically
generate grease pencil lines for characters, enviroments or other
visualization purposes.
These lines can then be baked and edited as regular grease pencil lines.
Reviewed By: Sebastian Parborg, Antonio Vazquez, Matias Mendiola
Differential Revision: http://developer.blender.org/D8758
Changes include using proper and consistent grammar, simplifying
phrasing, using correct terminology, and not including python API
identifiers in tooltips.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9924
In vertex selection mode, the "At First" and "At Last" options are
contextually added to the beginning of the list of merge operations.
This means the automatic shortcuts in the merge menu are different,
making learning the shortcuts much more difficult than necessary.
This patch reorders the items so that "At First" and "At Last" are
added after the first three options so the shortcuts are always
consistent.
Fixes T84335
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10008
This was reported for the Triangulate geometry node, but was also true
for the triangulate modifier and in exporters.
Note the modifier was introduced with "Ngon Method" in rBa7b44c82e5b9 but
was renamed to "Polygon Method" in rBf4762eb12ba5.
Since quads are also polygons (and quads have their own method), the
term "N-gon" is more appropriate here and is also described in the
glossary https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.92/glossary/
index.html#term-N-gon
Docs have been updated in rBM7539 (partially - the method would also
have to be renamed once this patch lands).
Note this also fixes the wrong enum used for the alembic exporter.
Fixes T83907
Maniphest Tasks: T83907
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10022
Approximately 138 changes in the spelling of compound words
and proper names like "Light Probe", "Shrink/Fatten", "Face Map".
In many cases, hyphens were used where they aren't correct, like
"re-fit". Other common changes include:
- "Datablock" -> "data-block"
- "Floating point" -> "floating-point"
- "Ngons" -> "n-gons"
These changes help give the language used in the interface
a consistent, more professional feel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9923
Approximately 195 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
UI labels and property names should use MLA title case, while descriptions
should be capitalized like regular prose, generally with only the start of
a sentence capitalized.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9922
Follow the MLA style, agreed upon in T79589. This means "from" within UI
labels should be lowercase.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8345
This adds XYZ symmetry as a property of meshes and updates all modes to
use the mesh symmetry by default to have a consistent tool behavior
between all modes and when switching objects.
Reviewed By: brecht, mano-wii, campbellbarton
Maniphest Tasks: T79785
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8587
Small tweaks to make labels and texts more correct, consistent and
polished.
Reviewed by: Aaron Carlisle, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8346
The winding order of the faces changes when flipping the faces.
This lead to the loop indices changing as well.
Now we take this into account when restoring and flipping the custom
normals. Before the normals would be swapped.
Build a temp matarray storing materials from obdata and source object
(depending on slots 'allocation' of source object), and assign those to
targets.
Also remove limitation of 'using same obdata is forbidden', just never
edit obdata materials in that case...
Certainly not perfect, but already much better than existing code.
Operators are one of the last places in Blender to use older UI designs
that don't fit in with recent style conventions. This commit updates
these custom operator UI callbacks for consistency and clarity.
Some of the code is also simplified a lot. Some of the older operator layouts
were much more complex (in terms of code) than they needed to be.
See the differential revision for a before and after screenshot
of each operator.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8326
